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Care Package Archive

Rejuvenating and practical frameworks for creating Clarity and Wellness in all areas of your life.

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Care Packages🤲🏽

You know when someone who loves you sends you a parcel with a bunch of goodies in it? I’m endeared to the care package (in whatever form it comes) as a way of making, way of caring, way of sharing. There’s no shortage of possibility as to how a care package presents, what it contains, what assortments are collected, how it’s delivered, how it’s received, and what it might mean to it’s recipients.

I value that this orientation toward making and giving can bring together items that you don’t always see together. You’re simply giving what’s needed and what might land as care. I like when a care package is a sweet collection of some practical stuffs and also things for pure enjoyment (maybe highlighting the functionality of joy and pleasure to our survival); a mix of things you can use in the long run plus some things to use right now. A box containing socks, a nice notebook, some chocolate, a bag of rice.

I like both mail and creating with the intention to give, so the Care Package holds a place in my heart. I send the people on my list a weekly (email) Care Package 🤲🏽. I write them with the intention of both holding space for all the positive possibility that you radiate, and to be of real tangible use. Ideas that you can grab onto, that make a difference in your life.

I created the Care Package Archive to collect these packages all in one place. Sign up if ya wanna receive em straight to your inbox.

Care Package 2 🤲🏽 A “bad” habit done rhythmically could be an essential part of your wellness journey

A “bad” habit done rhythmically could be an essential part of your wellness journey. No habit is innately “bad”. These statements will make sense by time you finish reading this.

A subject that I’ve talked about a lot over the past year, as it has grown increasingly in relevance, is stabilization. Stabilization is a concept that is inextricable to strength training vernacular, because it’s understood that the environmental stability (or lack there of) plays a part in the overall stimulus and therefore adaptation of the body. 

The stability of the ground is one of the first things we take into account. Performing any task on unstable ground is added stimulus that makes that specific task percentages more difficult because you’re essentially adding stabilization (which is no small thing) to the workload of the body. 

Why does this matter to you? This matters to you because I’m guessing this past year may have been, at a minimum, a little destabilizing. Out of respect for you and all the changes you may have experienced and may still be experiencing, I want to shed light on the work of stabilization. 

It can be helpful to remember that… Any change is recognized by your system as stress, because it requires adaptation which is work for your brain and body.

When environmental, social, external elements of your life are shifting, it takes effort to re-stabilize. You may not recognize that you are extending this extra effort but you may notice the lag in other areas that are meaningful to you. Stabilizing your immediate environment as much as possible is priority number one because it’s too much for your system to be in a constant state of stress and also try to be productive or creative.

Think about the difference between trying to learn a dance move while balancing on a bosu ball and also being tossed a bag of oranges versus trying to learn that same dance move on stable ground and not multitasking.

And have you noticed that when learning any physical sequence (shooting hoops, kicking a soccer ball, hitting a baseball) your footing is almost always instructed first… Your footing and whatever posture is going to afford the most stability so that you can funnel your energies toward the highest quality of whatever comes next. It’s no coincidence.

In the performing of any important and consequential series of actions, any strength or quality movement focus, footing and stability is always preliminary. It’s true in every sport and, in fact, any ambition.

Stabilization is such a tangible, physical, visible, and applicable concept that I utilize it in my Home Body Spirit Coaching as the first step to optimize an individual’s wellness ecosystem and lifestyle. Stabilization always comes first.

And during a year in which almost every part of everyone’s life was turned upside down, there hasn’t been a more relevant topic than stabilization. But how do we stabilize in our lifestyle? In our home? In our body?

What I’ve discovered is that rhythm is what affords stability in lifestyle. In other words, habits. Habits create stability for us.

I like to emphasize the rhythmic aspect of habits for two reasons:

1) If you’re like most people you’ve learned to have a judgemental relationship with habits. We’ve learned to wrap everything into interpretation packages of either “good” or “bad”; “these are good habits, these are bad habits.”

The problem here is that it’s initiating a relationship with habits that is based in control, and this approach is never sustainably fruitful. I prefer to forge a relationship with habits that is based in connection rather than control and what that looks like is, essentially, replacing judgement with curiosity.

2) Rhythm is the true active ingredient in habits and everything we gain from them. Rhythm is why and how habits work. Rhythm is why and how habits are healing. 

The reason why it is stabilizing to create rhythms for your activity (ie: establish habits) is because we live on a rhythmic planet in a rhythmic solar system and the grander forces that we exist within are, themselves, ritualistic. Those larger forces which are undeniable have momentums of rhythm that, when we sync up with them, are (and have been historically) supportive to us. 

Examples: punctuating sunrise and sundown with a routine, marking our weeks (7 sunrises) with a habit of work and rest, initiating our years (earth’s trip around the sun) with a ritual of festivities, etc.

… There’s a lot to be said about habits, rhythms, and stabilization but I’ll keep this at the bite-size but richly concentrated length it is now. If this is resonating with you on any level, check the bottom of this email for ways to connect.

Always knowing the best and highest in you,

Loretta

Originally shared 24 March 2021

Loretta Barrera